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10.7m watch England

Friday, 14 September, 2007 

Interest in the Three Lions is as high as ever with TV viewing figures peaking at 10.7m on Wednesday night.

England 3-0 Russia
UEFA European Championship Qualifier
8pm, Wednesday 12 September 2007
Wembley Stadium
Live on BBC1

Interest in the Three Lions is as high as ever with TV viewing figures peaking at 10.7m on Wednesday night.

The fans flocked in front of BBC1 to watch Michael Owen score twice before half-time. Rio Ferdinand then netted a late third as England coasted to victory.

England's next game is at home to Estonia on Saturday 13 October.

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England
1 Paul Robinson, 2 Micah Richards, 3 Ashley Cole, 4 Steven Gerrard, 5 Rio Ferdinand, 6 John Terry (c), 7 Gareth Barry, 8 Shaun Wright-Phillips, 9 Emile Heskey (Peter Crouch, 80), 10 Michael Owen (16 Stewart Downing, 90+2), 11 Joe Cole (14 Phil Neville, 88)

Subs: 12 Wes Brown, 13 David James, 15 Alan Smith, 17 Andrew Johnson, 18 Jermain Defoe.

Goals
Michael Owen 7, 31, Rio Ferdinand 84

Head Coach Steve McClaren

Russia
16 Viacheslav Malafeev, 2 Vasily Berezutskiy, 5 Sergey Ignashevich, 10 Andrey Arshavin, 15 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, 17 Konstantin Zyryanov, 18 Yury Zhishkov, 20 Igor Semshov (23 Vladimir Bystrov, 40), 22 Alexander Anyukov (11 Alexander Kerzakov, 80), 26 Dmitry Sychev (19 Roman Pavlyuchenko, 63), 27 Alexey Berezutskiy.

Subs: 12 Anton Shunin, 7 Dmitriy Torbinskiy, 13 Pavel Pogrebnyak, 25 Denis Koldin.

Head Coach Guus Hiddink

Kit Colours

England
White shirts, Blue shorts, White socks
GK Aubergine shirt, Aubergine shorts, White socks

Russia Red shirts, White shorts, Blue socks
GK Green shirt, Green shorts, Green socks

Match Officials
Referee
Martin Hansson (SWE)
Assistant Referees Stefan Wittberg and Henrik Andren (SWE)
Fourth Official Martin Ingvarsson (SWE)

Attendance 86,106